Quality Home Care in Bunbury, Right at Home

It depends on the level of support you are assessed as needing, and Support at Home sets that from your assessment rather than a flat rate. What matters more than the headline figure is how much of it reaches actual care, because provider fees come out of the same pool. Ask any provider what proportion of the package they keep.

Broadly three. Help around the house and with daily tasks, personal care such as showering and dressing, and clinical care from a registered nurse. Most people start with one and add the others as needs change, which is why a care plan should be reviewed rather than set once and left.

Not directly through a home care package, which pays for services rather than family members. Depending on circumstances you may be eligible for Centrelink's Carer Payment or Carer Allowance, which are separate. What a package can do is fund respite, so the caring you are already doing becomes sustainable.

Nobody is turned away from government funded home care because of their financial situation. Contributions are assessed on income and assets, and there are hardship provisions for people who genuinely cannot pay. If money is the thing stopping you asking for help, say so, because it is a more common conversation than most families expect.